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parcels-post system. In the same way the article OLD AGE PENSIONS will make you acquainted with another radical measure which has been adopted in Great Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Victoria and notably New Zealand, with fuller description in the article NEW ZEALAND. The importance of the subject to the American insurance man lies in the fact that similar schemes are under consideration or actual operation in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and other states of the United States. In the same way the article on EMPLOYERS LIABILITY and WORKMEN’S INSURANCE will give him a wider grasp of the subject of state insurance, mandatory or elective, for workmen. The principal articles on insurance topics have already been mentioned. It is to be noted, however, that the actuary will find important information in the mathematical articles MENSURATION and PROBABILITY; that the article FRIENDLY SOCIETIES is supplemented by such special articles as FREE MASONRY, B’NAI BRITH, BUILDING SOCIETIES, BURIAL SOCIETIES, ODD FELLOWS, etc. In the _Classified List of Articles_ in the Index Volume the student of insurance will find on page 893 a list of articles in the field of economics and social science, many of which will bear more or less directly on the subject. Among these articles and sub-articles are: Abandonment Accident Actuary Annuity Assets Austria Average Baby-Farming Barratry Boarding-out System Bonus Bounty Casualty Insurance Census Charity Co-insurance Combination Communism Conflict of Insurance Laws Co-operation Emigration Employers’ Liability Eugenics Fire and Fire Extinction Fire Insurance Foundling Hospitals F. P. A. Liabilities Friendly Societies Gaming and Wagering General Guarantee Halley’s Table Housing Illegitimacy Income Tax Industrial Insurance Infanticide Insurance Interest factor Japan Labour Legislation Land Registration Liability Life Insurance Lloyd’s Maritime Insurance Mendicancy Mensuration Mutual Insurance Mortality Rates Negative Values Net Liability Net Premium Non-forfeiture Northampton Table Novation Old Age Pensions Pauperism Pawnbroking Policy Poor Law Population Post Office Premium Probability Production Profit Sharing Rates of Mortality Reserve Salvage Selection Shipbuilding Socialism Social Settlements Subrogation Suicide Sumptuary Laws Surplus Surrender Values Switzerland Tariff Taxation of Insurance Title Guarantee Companies Tontine Trade Unions Tramp Trusts Underwriter Unemployment Usury Wages Warranty Wealth

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1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION 3. Part 1 contains 30 chapters, each designed for readers engaged in, or 4. Part 2 contains 30 chapters, each devoted to a course of systematic 5. Part 3 is devoted to the interests of children. The first of its 6. Part 4 suggests readings on questions of the day which relate to 7. Part 5, especially for women, deals with their legal and political 8. Part 6 is an analysis of the many departments of the Britannica which 9. PART I 10. Chapter 1. For Farmers 3 11. PART II 12. Chapter 31. Music 175 13. PART III 14. Chapter 61. Readings for Parents 371 15. PART IV 16. Chapter 64. 393 17. PART V 18. Chapter 65. 411 19. PART VI 20. Chapter 66. 425 21. PART I 22. CHAPTER I 23. CHAPTER II 24. CHAPTER III 25. CHAPTER IV 26. CHAPTER V 27. CHAPTER VI 28. CHAPTER VII 29. CHAPTER VIII 30. CHAPTER IX 31. CHAPTER X 32. CHAPTER XI 33. CHAPTER XII 34. CHAPTER XIII 35. introduction, from which we learn that the first legal statute in which 36. CHAPTER XIV 37. introduction of postal savings-banks and the adoption of the 38. CHAPTER XV 39. CHAPTER XVI 40. CHAPTER XVII 41. CHAPTER XVIII 42. 1. Articles on continents contain authoritative and original accounts of 43. 2. The articles on separate countries, on the individual states of the 44. 3. The articles on cities show the relation of each centre to the 45. 4. The maps as well as the many plans of cities, all of which were 46. 5. The articles on various branches of engineering and mechanics, 47. 6. The articles devoted exclusively to the subject, of which a brief 48. CHAPTER XIX 49. introduction of steam. 50. CHAPTER XX 51. CHAPTER XXI 52. CHAPTER XXII 53. CHAPTER XXIII 54. CHAPTER XXIV 55. CHAPTER XXV 56. introduction is furnished by VETERINARY SCIENCE (Vol. 28, p. 2), by Drs. 57. CHAPTER XXVI 58. CHAPTER XXVII 59. CHAPTER XXVIII 60. Part 4 of the Guide, with its special references to the subjects to 61. CHAPTER XXIX 62. CHAPTER XXX 63. PART II 64. CHAPTER XXXI 65. CHAPTER XXXII 66. CHAPTER XXXIII 67. CHAPTER XXXIV 68. CHAPTER XXXV 69. CHAPTER XXXVI 70. CHAPTER XXXVII 71. CHAPTER XXXVIII 72. CHAPTER XXXIX 73. CHAPTER XL 74. CHAPTER XLI 75. prologue (see the article LOGOS, by the late Rev. Dr. Stewart Dingwall 76. introduction, in which Paul’s attitude toward Jewish legalism is made an 77. chapter 3; MATTHEW, for a similar view of the gospel and the Church; and 78. CHAPTER XLII 79. CHAPTER XLIII 80. 1846. F. W. Taussig, Harvard 81. CHAPTER XLIV 82. CHAPTER XLV 83. CHAPTER XLVI 84. CHAPTER XLVII 85. CHAPTER XLVIII 86. Introduction: “Charity,” as used in New Testament, means love and 87. Part I.—Primitive Charity—highly developed idea of duty to guest or 88. Part II.—Charity among the Greeks. “In Crete and Sparta the citizens 89. Part III.—Charity in Roman Times. “The system obliged the hard-working 90. Part IV.—Jewish and Christian Charity. In Christianity a fusion of 91. Part V.—Medieval Charity and its Development. St. Francis and his 92. Part VI.—After the Reformation. “The religious life was to be 93. CHAPTER XLIX 94. CHAPTER L 95. CHAPTER LI 96. CHAPTER LII 97. CHAPTER LIII 98. CHAPTER LIV 99. CHAPTER LV 100. CHAPTER LVI 101. CHAPTER LVII 102. CHAPTER LVIII 103. CHAPTER LIX 104. CHAPTER LX 105. PART III 106. CHAPTER LXI 107. CHAPTER LXII 108. CHAPTER LXIII 109. PART IV 110. CHAPTER LXIV 111. introduction of Flemish weavers to England and the forced migration of 112. PART V 113. CHAPTER LXV 114. PART VI 115. CHAPTER LXVI

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